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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Symbols in Chemical Equations

For Students 3rd - 8th
Chem4Kids! provides an overview of the symbols representing numerical values in chemical equations. Each symbol is defined and described.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Rump and Ugla [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A reader's theater script for the modern fairy tale, Rump and Ugla, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Balance Magic

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can balance a sculpture on the end of a toothpick!
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Responding to Literature Forms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers including a book critique form, response journals, adding an ending, and book log.
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Lesson Plan
US Department of Energy

Need Project: Solar Oven [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
An introduction and activity to engage students in building a solar oven.
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Study Guide
Other

New York State Education Department: Eighth Grade Math, Book Three (2006) [Pdf]

For Students 7th - 9th
Part three of three; The March 2006 8th grade Math test from the State of New York. The test is 12 open-response questions dealing with topics such as algebra (solve for a variable, write function rules), geometry (translations, parallel...
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Atoms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a detailed overview of atoms. Content explores an atom's structure, as well as what ions are, how atoms bond, what compounds are (including how to name compounds), and what isotopes are.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: The Mysterious Force

For Students 3rd - 8th
There is a secret mysterious force in your home right this very moment! Try these activities to first identify that force and then extend your knowledge of the force by investigating the other activities provided.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Where Did It Come From?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is your room a mess? Does your nose have freckles on it like your mom's? Are your eyes the same color as your dad's? Which one of these things does not belong in lessons about heredity? Give these investigations a whirl while learning...
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Matter

For Students 4th - 8th
Discover atoms and molecules which make up matter, motion of atoms and how to measure the mass, volume and density of matter.
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Create Your Own Time Capsule

For Students 3rd - 8th
By making time capsules, we can decide what message to send to the future about our own lives. If it were discovered years from now, what would the objects say about you and the time you lived in?
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Trip Up Your Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: If Rocks Could Talk: Sandstone

For Students 3rd - 8th
A simple explanation of how sandstone rock is formed.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Importance of the Origin

For Students 6th - 8th
The CyberSquad tries to rescue the Cyberchase Council, which is being held captive by Hacker in this video segment from Cyberchase.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Civil Rights Movement: Game 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learning game in which students solve a mystery and complete the puzzle with the fewest clues in the Civil Rights category.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sam's Similar Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students learn about and practice identifying similar figures in this interactive web lesson.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Children's Shakespeare

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The Children's Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit, a fiction book for children.
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Interactive
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Did I Read?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explicit and implicit information are reviewed in this lesson. Students will choose a part of the body and then read a short passage that explains what it does. Students will answer three questions over the passage and then determine...
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Activity
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Improve an Argument [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet. Students will read a nonfiction article and then answer scaffolded questions that will help them determine the strength of evidence presented in the argument. Then students will provide...
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Graphic organizers are provided to help analyze the importance of people in history and to place events in chronological order. Guiding questions are provided to help guide students
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Identify and Infer Character Traits[pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students will identify character traits directly and inferentially with the help of this graphic organizer. Students will summarize their findings after completing the graphic organizer.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Contrast and Evaluate Fact, Opinion [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This site provides a poster that will guide students as they contrast and evaluate facts and opinions. Guiding questions and student prompts are provided.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Illustrate a Text [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This module includes links to pages that can be used to illustrate a text. Links to an illustration planner, picture meaning, and show vs. tell resources are included.